Terms and Conditions

Using our website

The Herefordshire Arts Market website, www.herefordshire.gov.uk/artsmarket, is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of our terms and conditions that take effect from the date of first use.

Buying from this website

Herefordshire Arts Market does not undertake to guarantee any financial transaction that you enter into with individual artist sellers contained on this website. When you place an order for an item you are contracting directly with an individual artist to supply that item and you are paying them directly via their individual online account. Herefordshire Arts Market has no financial role to play in this transaction and cannot act as an intermediary in disputed payments or failures to supply ordered items.

Hyperlinking policy

Hyperlinking to us at the Herefordshire Arts Market website by a third party

You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. We will assert our Moral Right if the links can be interpreted as derogatory or misleading.

However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The Herefordshire Arts Market website pages must load into the user's entire window.

Hyperlinking by us at Herefordshire Arts Market to a third party

It is our policy to obtain permission to link to other websites where appropriate. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the linked websites and linking does not necessarily mean that we endorse the views expressed within them. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.

Virus Protection awareness

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from the Herefordshire Arts Market website.

Privacy Statement

Our Privacy Statement outlines the Herefordshire Arts Market website's policy in accordance with the Public Services Trust Charter recommendations.

Copyright Statement

Our Copyright Statement outlines the Herefordshire Arts Market website's copyright policy.

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Supplementary terms for Artists

Copyright

All information and images that you upload to the Herefordshire Arts Market remain copyrighted by you. Herefordshire Arts Market will not seek to reproduce your information or images without your permission.

Selling

Each individual artist is responsible for maintaining their own online account and managing payments and fulfilling orders in reasonable time. Herefordshire Arts Market does not undertake to guarantee payments from buyers nor play a part in helping you to fulfil orders.

Herefordshire Arts Market will seek to maintain the good reputation of the website by ensuring that individual artists fulfil orders in reasonable time, and act in a business-like way with customers.

Security

Herefordshire Arts Market does not carry any sensitive information about your online PayPal account. It is your responsibility to keep your online account secure and to manage your relationship with your online account provider separately from Herefordshire Arts Market.

Complaints and Problems

Herefordshire Arts Market cannot take up individual cases of non-payment nor pursue debts on behalf of individual artists. Nor can it act as an arbitrator in disputes and complaints between buyers and sellers.

Maintenance

Herefordshire Arts Market will monitor general activity on the website and may contact individual artists to ascertain their status if they are perceived as inactive.